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Lot 104
NO RESERVE Johnson (Samuel) The Lives of the most eminent English Poets, with critical observations of their Works, 4 vol., second edition, lacking engraved portrait and advertisement leaf at end of vol.4, light browning, modern calf, gilt, by Hayes & Son of Oxford, spines gilt with red and brown roan labels, [Rothschild 1265], C.Bathurst [& others], 1781 § Croker (John wilson) The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries..., edited by Louis J.Jennings, 3 vol., second edition, engraved portrait, contemporary half roan, spines a little rubbed and faded, 1885, 8vo (7)
Lot 107
Byron.- Romanticism.- Sanders (George, 1774-1846), After. Portrait Of George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, Lord Byron, point of the brush, watercolour on thin card, oval, approx. 160 x 110 mm. (6 1/4 x 4 1/4 in), presented in ornate frame, [circa 1810 or slightly later]⁂ Fine portrait miniature derived from Sanders's oil painting of Lord Byron held in the Royal Collection [RCIN 402411]
Lot 12
Card game.- Berni (Francesco) Capitolo del gioco della primiera col comento di messer Pietropaulo da San Chirico, collation: A-K4, italic type, woodcut initial incorporating a portrait, small section of foot of title repaired, stained, 18th century vellum, 8vo (135 x 89mm.), no place, no printer, [after 27 August, 1526].⁂ Rare, undated edition, of this poem by the Tuscan Francesco Berni about the card game primiera, a forerunner of poker. EDIT 16 records only three copies. Provenance: 'Ex Bibliotheca Card. [?]' (early stamp to title); Stuart R. Kaplan (bookplate to front pastedown).Literature: EDIT 16 CNCE 5528; S. R. Kaplan, Encyclopaedia of Tarots, New York 1978, i, pp. 28-29.
Lot 130
Fleming (Ian) On Her Majesty's Secret Service, number 230 of 250 copies signed by the author, half-title, frontispiece portrait by Amherst Villiers, title-page in red and black, minor damp-mottling to pastedowns, endpapers and half-title, original vellum-backed cloth, white ski-track motif on upper cover, line a little rubbed, t.e.g., original acetate dust-jacket, a little toned, light chipping to corners, 1 corner with short closed tear, 8vo, 1963.⁂ Fleming's only signed limited edition.
![Le Carré (John) [The Karla Trilogy], 3 vol., compising Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, bookplate signed by the author to title, ve](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/617e85a2-abc5-41d1-97ac-ab6e00a6bdf6/0ae187bb-f7fa-41f4-a6bf-ab6f00a1a328/468x382.jpg)
Lot 149
Le Carré (John) [The Karla Trilogy], 3 vol., compising Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, bookplate signed by the author to title, very short close tear with minor creasing to head of lower panel, 1974; The Honourable Schoolboy, signed by the author on title, 1977; Smiley's People, signed by the author on title, 1980, first editions, original boards, jackets with usual light fading to spines, a little rubbed at head and foot, but generally near-fine overall; Smiley's People, uncorrected proof copy, cut signature of the author to upper cover, light foxing, front free endpaper upper corner clipped, original wrappers, some light foxing to covers, minor creasing to spine and corners, proof dust-jacket, spine slightly faded, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, some creasing to head and foot, [c.1980], 8vo (4)⁂ An excellent example of Le Carré's seminal spy trilogy. The proof dust-jacket of Smiley's People has significant differences with that on the first edition including a different setting on the upper panel, an alternative author portrait on the lower panel and a different colour scheme on the flaps.
Lot 151
Mandela (Nelson) The Illustrated Long Walk to Freedom, number 381 of 425 copies with accompanying portrait of Mandela by Benny Gool signed and dated by Mandela, colour illustrations, signature on title, original goatskin-backed cloth, g.e., watered silk-lined cloth drop-back box with picture of Mandela on upper cover, 4to, 1996
Lot 161
Conder (Charles, English-born artist who emigrated to Australia, 1868-1909) Profile portrait of a lady, pen and inks, watercolour over pencil, signed and dated '1897', on buff wove paper, sheet 225 x 145 mm. (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in), inset at edges onto paper mount, minor cockling and toning to sheet, unframed, 1897Provenance:Beatrice Capel, Later Lady Michelam (from an album compiled circa 1895-1950)
Lot 262
Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie, translated by Sir Henry Billingsley, preface by John Dee, first edition in English of the first complete translation, title within fine woodcut border depicting Ptolemy and Strabo, amongst others, folding letter-press table (torn and repaired, without loss), numerous woodcut diagrams including 37 diagrams on 28 pp. with one or more printed overslips, woodcut portrait of John Day above colophon, woodcut historiated or decorative initials and tail-pieces, lacking final blank, title and final 2ff. with neat restorations to blank outer corners, occasional dampstaining, mostly marginal, 2D2 with burn hole to head, 2V2&3 with small patch of soiling partially obscuring text, small rust hold to 2D1, small paper flaws to 2T2&5 with some minor loss to text, modern antique-style calf with original covers laid down, [STC 10560; cf. PMM 25], by John Daye, [1570].⁂ First edition of the first major science book in English. The clear and precise nature of the text coupled with the numerous illustrations ensured this work's continued popularity as a scientific textbook up to the present day. In addition the use of printed slips here (originally printed as six bifolia bound in at the end) mean that this work can lay claim to being the first illustrated popup work in the English language. John Dee's preface is considered by many to be his most important published work. It outlines the practical applications of Euclid's work, lays the foundations for later experimental science and hints at the use of magic and the supernatural in conjunction with the natural. In addition, Dee also contributed further theorems and annotations.
![Eye surgery.- Bartisch (Georg) Opthalmoduleia [Greek type]. Das ist, Augendienst., first edition, collation: A-D⁶ E⁴ A-Z⁶ a-x](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/617e85a2-abc5-41d1-97ac-ab6e00a6bdf6/95895a78-d572-4437-9432-ab6f00a053e6/468x382.jpg)
Lot 263
Eye surgery.- Bartisch (Georg) Opthalmoduleia [Greek type]. Das ist, Augendienst., first edition, collation: A-D⁶ E⁴ A-Z⁶ a-x⁶ y⁸ z⁴ Aa⁶, Gothic letter, title in red and black, woodcut coat-of-arms, portrait and 88 woodcut illustrations, 2 with overlays, colophon to final leaf, previous owner's ink and pencil inscriptions to the front endpapers, 2 old faint library stamps to title, occasional pencil markings to blank margins, short tear to foot a2, occasional browning and spotting, contemporary vellum, later doeskin ties, small ink stain to upper cover, a little rubbed, housed in a modern drop-back box, [VD16 B558; G&M 5817; Hirschberg II pp.323-342], 308 x 190 mm, folio, Dresden, Matthes Stöckel, 1583.⁂ Bartisch was court oculist to the Elector of Dresden and the founder of modern opthalmology. He was developed many instruments and was renowned for his cataract operations. This is the first modern work on eye surgery, and one of the most remarkable illustrated book in early medical literature. Provenance. Purchase note of Andreas Latumarr, dated 1585, to front pastedown. Ownership note of Lundsgaard, Copenhagen, dated 1921 to front pastedown.
Lot 288
Füssli (Johann Rudolf) Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian, etching, 13 x 9 cm (5 1/8 x 3 ½ in.), trimmed just within platemark at foot, narrow margins on other sides, [Zurich, 1755] § Chodowiecki (Daniel) The artist's bookplate, etching, 8 x 6 cm (3 ¼ x 2 3/8 in.), trimmed just within platemark, laid on old album paper, c. 1770; together with a group of 17th and 18th century prints by Benigno Bossi, Bernard Lens, Hieronymus Wierx and others, all unframed (c. 33)
Lot 296
Voyages.- Bruyn (Cornelis de) Voyage au Levant ... dans les Isles de Chio, Rhodes, Chypre, &., 5 vol., first collected edition, engraved portrait plate, 85 plates (12 folding) and 5 folding engraved maps, occasional spotting, small marginal hole (vol. 1, B2), marginal worming affecting 2 or 3 plates (vol. 3, 3C1 - final leaf), occasional spotting and faint soiling, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Blackmer 225], 4to, Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Claude Bauche, 1725.⁂ Volumes 3-5 were given the alternative title 'Voyages par la Moscovie, Perse et Indes Orientales.'
Lot 90
Huth copy.- Marvell (Andrew) Miscellaneous Poems, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut printer's device to title, without, as usual, R2-T1 and U2-T4 (suppressed poems on Cromwell), S1 and X1 replacing these, neat marginal restoration to portrait, occasional spotting, polished calf by F. Bedford, upper joint splitting, but holding, rubbed, g.e., [Wing M872; Grolier Wither to Prior 536; Hayward 126; Pforzheimer 671], folio, printed [by Simon Miller?] for Robert Boulter, at the Turks-Head in Cornhill, 1681.⁂ First edition of the principal collection of Marvell's poems, edited by his widow Mary Marvell. In her prefatory address she writes: 'These are to Certifie every Ingenious Reader, that all these Poems, as also the other things in this Book contained, are Printed according to the exact Copies of my late dear Husband, under his own Hand-Writing, being found since his Death among his other Papers...'). Includes the first printing of 'To his Coy Mistress'. Provenance: Henry Huth; Robert Herring; Brian Fenwick-Smith (bookplates).
Lot 174
Donald Sinden signed 6x4 portrait illustration. (9 October 1923 - 12 September 2014 was an English actor in theatre, film, television and radio as well as an author. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 90
Van Johnson actor signed autograph album page with smiley face doodle plus unsigned b/w portrait photo nicely framed and mounted with name plaque to an overall size of 12 x 9 inches. Charles Van Dell Johnson (August 25, 1916 - December 12, 2008) was an American film, television theatre and radio actor, singer, and dancer. He was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during and after World War II. Johnson was the embodiment of the boy-next-door wholesomeness which made him a popular Hollywood star in the 1940s and 1950s, playing the red-haired, freckle-faced soldier, sailor, or bomber pilot who used to live down the street in MGM films during the war years, with such films as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, A Guy Named Joe, and The Human Comedy. He made occasional World War II films through the end of the 1960s, and he played a military officer in one of his final feature films in 1992. At the time of his death in December 2008, he was one of the last surviving matinee idols of Hollywood's golden age. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 77
Duffy signed music autograph display. Comprises 10 x 8 b/w signed 3/4 length b/w portrait photo, professionally framed and mounted in black with name Plaque to an overall size 24 x 18 inches. Very nicely done highly collectables. Aimee Anne Duffy, Welsh singer, songwriter and actress. Her first album, Rockferry, released in 2008, became the best-selling album in the United Kingdom that year, and led to worldwide attention. In 2009 she received the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album for Rockferry, one of three nominations, and won three out of four Brit Awards nominations, for British Breakthrough, Best British Female and Best British Album. In 2011 she made her acting debut in the film Patagonia. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 86
Count Basie signed music autograph display. Comprises vintage dedicated signed autograph album page, mounted with b/w portrait photo and gold name plaque. Framed and mounted to an overall size of 16 x 12 inches. William James Count Basie August 21, 1904 - April 26, 1984 was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, Basie formed his own jazz orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 723
Kim Coates signed 10 x 8 colour Sons Of Anarchy Portrait Photo, from in person collection autographed at London Convention 2016. TV Film autograph. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 588
Max Schmelling boxing legend signed 6 x 4 colour portrait photo. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 87
Joe Stafford signed 10 x 8 inch b/w portrait photo framed and mounted to an overall size of 16 x 13 inches. Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917 - July 16, 2008) was an American traditional pop music singer and occasional actress, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become an opera singer before following a career in popular music, and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide record sales than any other female artist. Her 1952 song You Belong to Me topped the charts in the United States and United Kingdom, the record becoming the first by a female artist to reach number one on the UK Singles Chart. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 586
Taylor Lautner signed 10 x 8 colour portrait photo from Twilight. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 106
Donald Sinden autograph mounted with b/w portrait photo to an overall 16 x 12 inches. Sir Donald Alfred Sinden CBE FRSA was an English actor in theatre, film, television and radio as well as an author. Sinden featured in the 1953 film Mogambo, and achieved early fame as a Rank Organisation film star in the 1950s in films including Doctor in the House, Simba, Eyewitness and Doctor at Large. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
![Ornament.- Roupert (Louis).- Cossin (Louis) [Ornamental designs for goldsmiths], engraved throughout with fine portrait of th](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5fa34ad6-3fee-4e08-824c-ab6100f26bee/008329c2-58d8-40ad-86eb-ab61010e7941/468x382.jpg)
Lot 116
Ornament.- Roupert (Louis).- Cossin (Louis) [Ornamental designs for goldsmiths], engraved throughout with fine portrait of the goldsmith Louis Roupert after Pierre Rabon, dedication and 7 plates of designs by Cossin after Roupert, one trimmed to the platemark, others with small margins, all mounted, portrait 165 x 230mm, the rest c.140 x 230mm., some soiling, later library half morocco, rubbed, [Berlin Kat. 833], Metz, 1668; and 3 other albums, including one with Borch's 'Nouveau Livre de Cartouches à l'Usage de différens Artistes', title and five engraved plates of ornamental rococo cartouches from the mid-18th century, another with Jean-Louis Prieur the Elder's 'Deuxieme Cahier de Sujets Arabesques utile aux Artistes et Eleves', six plates bound with 14 others, all published by F. Joubert, and a composite album with 26 trimmed engravings of designs for goldsmiths, several from Jacques Vauquer's 'Livre de fleurs propres pour Orfévres et Graveurs', oblong folio & 4to (4)
Lot 154
NO RESERVE Mezzotint engraving.- Evelyn (John) Sculptura; or, the History and Art of Chalcography, and Engraving in Copper, second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, plate and folding mezzotint plate by Prince Rupert of the Rhine, after Ribera, oval bookplate of T.Beale, contemporary calf, gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, for J. Payne, 1755.⁂ Originally published in 1662 this was the first book in English to describe the process of mezzotint engraving and to include a mezzotint print, 'The Executioner' by Prince Rupert of the Rhine after Ribera. Mezzotint was invented by Ludwig von Siegen in the 1640s and the process was developed and brought to England by Prince Rupert, whom Evelyn credited with the invention. This edition includes 'The Little Executioner', a greatly reduced copy of Rupert's version.
Lot 161
*** Please note, the description for this lot has changed.Flaxman (John, sculptor and draughtsman, 1755-1826), Wyon (William, chief engraver at the Royal Mint, between 1830 and 1850, 1795-1851) and others. Original Sketches for Medals, Seals, &c., 151 original drawings, 2 vol., vol. I with 81 drawings and watercolours by various hands [see list below], and vol. II with 65 drawings by various hands [see below], vol. I predominantly with designs for seals, medals, and coins, including over 30 drawings by and attributed to William Wyon, vol. II with medals and 43 original drawings by John Flaxman for cups, candelabra, ornamental friezes and of figural compositions, pen and inks, watercolours, pencil and chalks, all on various contemporary papers, neatly hinged onto thick album leaves, most bearing pencil attributions verso and on mounts, album leaves each approx.. 390 x 290 mm. (15 ¼ x 11 ½ in), one leaf lacking a drawing, otherwise complete, another drawing loose from album leaf, occasional spotting, browning, surface dirt and handling creases, half red morocco, marbled boards, spine gilt, one vol. with inside upper cover coming loose, rubbed and scuffed, folio, [probably compiled circa 1830-1850]Provenance:Possibly part ex-collection of William Wyon (1795-1851), or a descendant [for discussion of Wyon's relationship to John Flaxman, see Mark Jones, William Wyon as a Pupil and Follower of Flaxman, from 'Burning Bright: Essays in Honour of David Bindman', pp. 89-97, UCL Press, 2015]Literature:Westwood, Arthur [compiled by], Catalogue of the Books in the Library at the Assay Office Birmingham, 1914, p. 301; described as 'Two folio volumes in which are inserted original sketches and designs for coins, medals, etc., by William Wyon, Sir Thomas Lawrence, ... Thomas Stothard ..., and John Flaxman.'Drawing highlights contained within vol. I include:- Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) Head of Minerva, design for a seal, pencil, 110 x 48 mm. (4 ¼ x 1 ¾ in)- Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey (1781-1841) Profile portrait of William IV, design for a coin, pencil, 225 x 190 mm. (8 ¾ x 7 ½ in)- William Dyce (1806-1864) Six sheets of designs for crown pieces or florins, various sizes- E. Corbould (1815-1905) Over 30 sheets of coin and medal designs attributed to E. Corbould, possibly [?] Henry Corbould (1787-1844), various sizes- William Wyon (1795-1851) Over 30 sheets of portraits, some of personal interest to the artist, others designs for coins and medals, various sizesDrawing highlights contained within vol. II include:- Thomas Stothard (1755-1834) Three sheets of studies for medals, including one for the coronation of George IV, various sizes- Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875) Five sheets of studies for medals, including the General Service Medal, 1793-1814, various sizes- Richard Redgrave (1804-1896) Design for a brooch, "The Birth of Venus"; Study of Cupid's head, two works, various sizes - Samuel Gurney Cresswell (first naval officer to cross the entire Northwest Passage, 1827-1867) The accepted design for reverse of the Arctic medal, 1818-1855, pen and ink, 85 x 65 mm. (3 ¼ x 2 ½ in)- Admiral Sir George Back (explorer of the Canadian Arctic, naturalist and artist, 1796-1878) Two sheets with designs for the Arctic medal, pen and black ink, each approx. 168 x 108 mm. (6 5/8 x 4 ¼ in)- John Rogers Herbert (1810-1890) Four sheets of studies for medals and candelabra, various sizes43 drawings contained within vol. II by John Flaxman (1755-1826):PLEASE CONTACT FORUM AUCTIONS FOR FULL LIST*** A highly important and comprehensive collection of English metalwork design, featuring numerous original studies by the leading figures of the early 19th century, including 43 late-period drawings by John Flaxman, showing numerous rare examples of his designs for silverware.Eight of the sheets by Flaxman bear the same numbering and pencil inscriptions as found on the British Museum's 'The Sisters and mother of Phaeton transformed into poplars, and Clymene into a swan' [see acc. no. 1900,0824.195]. Highly similar studies that lack these numbers and inscriptions can be closely compared with other examples in the British Museum's collection, such as 'Design for a monument - a mural tablet with figures of Science, to left, and Genius' [acc. no. 1888,0503.36], and 'Venus in her sea chariot, attended by Tritons and a Nereid, with a pedestal' [acc. no. 1900,0824.197]. The drawing 'Michael Seizing the Rebel Angels', also held in the British Museum [1888,0503.94], would appear to be on the same stock of Whatman paper as many in the present album. Other comparative drawings are located in the Stanford University Museum and the Huntington Library.
Lot 184
NO RESERVE Gems & rings.- Gorlaeus (Abraham) Dactyliothecae, seu annulorum sealarium quorum apud priscos tam Graecos quam Romanos usus ex ferro, aere, argento et auro, 3 parts in 1, including appendix, half-title, engraved portrait of the author, 2 engraved additional pictorial titles, printed titles in red and black and with engraved printer's device, 282 engraved plates, occasional spotting or finger-marking, contemporary blind-stamped panelled vellum, soiled, small 4to, Leiden, Peter van der Aa, 1695.
Lot 19
Gold & Silver.- Arphe y Villafane (Juan de) Quilatador de la plata, oro y piedras, conforme a las leyes reales y para declaracion de ellas, collation: ¶8 ¶¶8 A-Z8 2A-2G8 2H4, title with large woodcut arms, full-page woodcut portrait of the author to verso of ¶4, tables, woodcut printer's device to foot of final f., little staining to title, occasional spotting, some light browning, 19th century red calf, gilt, covers with centre-pieces 'Bibliotheca de Salva', 8vo (145 x 97mm.), Madrid, Guillermo Drouy, 1598.⁂ Rare second edition of this work on the assaying of gold, silver, and precious stones. 'Arfe was the outstanding Spanish gold- and silversmith of the late Renaissance and Early Baroque periods' (Hoover). Literature: Palau 16054; cf. Hoover 54.
Lot 191
Ornament & Cyphers.- Gribelin (Simon) A New Book of Ornaments, useful to all Artists. Dedicated to the Honourable Colonel Parsons, engraved throughout with pictorial title and 11 superb plates by Gribelin, n.p., 1704 bound after Parsons (Col. William) A New Book of Cyphers, engraved throughout with frontispiece, title, dedication, advertisement and 52 plates, tear to frontispiece (repaired), for the Author...by W.Rogers and H.Rhodes..., 1704, together 2 works in 1 vol., foxing, mostly marginal, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, rebacked, [Berlin Kat. 752 & 5315], oblong 4to⁂ The first is rare and one of the most attractive of all books on ornament. Library Hub records only 2 copies (Sheffield Hallam University and Trinity College Dublin). The last copy we have been able to trace at auction was in 1981, with the plates all cut and mounted. The portrait incorporated in the second plate is Colonel Parsons, the author of the second work.
Lot 196
NO RESERVE Gruner (Louis) The Green Vaults Dresden, portrait and 28 plates, all but 4 chromolithographed and mounted, original cloth, worn and stained, rebacked preserving original spine, 1876 § Hefner-Alteneck (J.H. von) Kunst-kammer seiner Koeniglichen Hoheit des Fürsten Karl Anton von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, bound from the original 9 parts, decorative title with name in gold and 60 colour plates mounted on stubs, later library half morocco, original printed wrappers bound in at end, Munich, 1866 § Pfnor (R.) Ornementation Usuelle...dans les Arts Industriels et en Architecture, 2 vol., 125 plates, 24 chromolithographed, some heightened with gold, later library half morocco, Paris, 1866-68 § Gibb (W.) The Royal House of Stuart, 40 chromolithographed plates, original half morocco, 1890, rubbed; and another with colour plates, 4to & folio (6)
Lot 20
NO RESERVE Arphe y Villafane (Juan de) Varia commensuracion para la escultura y arquitectura, fifth edition, title with woodcut medallion portrait of the author, woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, some spotting or staining, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, soiled and creased, folio, Madrid, Joseph Mathias Escrivano, 1763.⁂ A manual for silversmiths, sculptors, architects, and other craftsmen. Includes anatomical studies and perspective.
Lot 201
NO RESERVE Vases.- Hamilton (Sir William) Outlines from the Figures and Compositions upon the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Vases of the late..., first edition, lacking half-title, with 62 engraved plates by Thomas Kirk, all with ornamental borders, tissue guards, contemporary dark blue straight-grain morocco with ornamental border in gilt and blind, spine in compartments with 4 double raised bands, g.e., [Blackmer 915], printed by W.Bulmer & Co., 1804 § Moses (Henry) A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, Paterae, Tripods, Candelabra, Sarcophagi, &c., engraved decorative title, vignettes and 150 plates, 10 hand-coloured, contemporary half roan, joints split, [1814]; Vases from the Collection of Sir Henry Englefield, Bart., engraved portrait, decorative title and plates, upper hinge split, contemporary straight-grain morocco, [1820], some foxing; and 4 others on designs for vases including a volume of 4 copies of Vico plates, 4to & 8vo (8)
![Sale and collection catalogues.- Hamilton (Duke of) [Hamilton Palace collection, Sale catalogue] Catalogue of the Collection](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5fa34ad6-3fee-4e08-824c-ab6100f26bee/901209f8-2473-4847-8834-ab61010f8723/468x382.jpg)
Lot 202
Sale and collection catalogues.- Hamilton (Duke of) [Hamilton Palace collection, Sale catalogue] Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures, Works of Art, and Decorative Objects, 5 parts in 1, carbon print photographic plates by James Annan (son of Thomas Annan), a few prices in pencil, upper hinge weak, original cloth, head of spine chipped, Christie, Manson & Woods, 1882 § Denison (Christopher Beckett) [Sale catalogue] Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Pictures, Works of Art, and Decorative Objects, 2 parts in 1, photographic plates, ruled in red and with prices throughout and most buyers' names, contemporary half morocco, Christie, Manson & Woods, 1885 § Forster (Henry Rumsey) The Stowe Catalogue Priced and Annotated, title in red and black with wood-engraved vignette, later half morocco, 1848 § Walpole (Horace) [Sale Catalogue] A Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill, additional wood-engraved title, lithograph portrait frontispiece, contemporary cloth, George Robins, 1842; and 31 others, auction and collection catalogues including The Palace Collections of Egypt (lacking Stamps), 4to and 8vo (35)
Lot 203
Metallurgy.- Hampe (John Henry) An Experimental System of Metallurgy..., first edition, mezzotint portrait with letterpress in Latin and Greek below trimmed and laid down on blank leaf as frontispiece, wide margins, light foxing, later half morocco, by R.R.Porter, t.e.g., a little rubbed, spine faded, folio, J.Nourse, 1777.⁂ Scarce. ESTC lists only 5 UK copies (BL 2 copies, Science Museum, John Rylands Library in Manchester, and Brotherton Library, Leeds), and 4 in America.
Lot 211
Merchants.- Hatton (Edward) The Merchant"s Magazine: or, Trades-Man's Treasury, seventh edition, engraved portrait and 9 calligraphic plates, light dampstaining to lower corner, occasional ink annotations, sheet of autograph calligraphy loosely inserted, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, [Kress 3104; not in Goldsmiths'], for Chr. Coningsby, at the Ink-Bottle, 1719 § Watson (John) Table of Exchange, 2 parts in 1 vol., list of subscribers, 1p. advertisement, contemporary calf, [not in Kress or Goldsmiths'; ESTC 3 copies only, not in National Library of Ireland], Dublin, by S. Powell, 1750; and 6 others, merchants and tradesmen, v.s. (8)
Lot 237
Britain.- Hutton (William) A Trip to Coatham, a Watering Place in the North Extremity of Yorkshire, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding map with outline hand-colouring, 3 plates, slight offsetting, library half morocco, 1810; The History of Derby, first edition, folding engraved frontispiece, folding plan and 17 plates, library half morocco, 1791 § Aikin (Arthur) Journal of a Tour through North Wales and part of Shropshire with Observations in Mineralogy..., engraved portrait from another work bound in as frontispiece, ink ownership inscription of Daniel Jones, Donington 1869 and with his ink annotations, especially relating to geology towards end, contemporary half calf, worn, rebacked, 1797 § Moritz (Karl P.) Travels, Chiefly on Foot, through several parts of England, first edition, translated by 'A Lady' [probably a daughter of Charles Godfrey Woide], contemporary calf, worn, 1795 § Bingley (Rev. William) A Tour round North Wales, 2 vol., 4 aquatint plates, engraved plates of musical notation, contemporary half calf, joints cracked, rubbed, 1800; and 47 others, British topography, v.s. (53)
Lot 287
Mercati (Michele) Metallotheca. Opus posthumum, 2 parts in 1, including appendix, first illustrated edition, folding engraved frontispiece, titles in red and black and with engraved vignette, 6 engraved plates (1 folding), engraved illustrations, errata f. and 'Regestum' f. with engraved printer's device at end of part 1, lacking half-title and a portrait, some spotting or light foxing, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, [Hoover 581; Sinkankas 4390; Ward & Carozzi 1541; Caillet 7390], folio, Rome, Johannes Maria Salvioni, 1719.⁂ A landmark treatise in the history of mineralogy and metallurgy. Mercati was personal physician to Popes Gregory XIII and Clement VIII, and superintendent of the Vatican Botanical Garden. He formed one of the first organised collections of minerals under the aegis of Pope Sixtus V. 'The collection reflects the state of knowledge extant at the time, and therefore includes objects of presumed magical or medicinal virtue as well as those which are correctly identified and described' (Sinkankas).
Lot 301
Economics.- Necker (Jacques) Oeuvres, 4 vol., half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 folding hand-coloured engraved maps, 4 folding letterpress tables, some spotting or foxing, occasional staining, contemporary cat's paw calf, rebacked, corners repaired, rubbed, [Einaudi 4092], 4to, Lausanne, J.P. Heubach & Company, 1786.
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Writing book.- Calligraphy.- Palatino (Giovanni Battista) Libro... Nel qual s'insegna a scriuere ogni sorte lettera, antica, & moderna, di qualunque natione, con le sue Regole, & misure, & essempi, et con vn breve et vtil discorso de le cifre, collation: A-H8, title with large woodcut portrait, full-page woodcut alphabets and examples of calligraphy, H8 with large woodcut printer's device recto otherwise blank, a few ff. with light red crayon colouring, repaired hole within portrait, marginal reapirs, some spotting or light staining, 19th century polished mottled calf, gilt, spine in compartments, rubbed, 8vo (198 x 126mm.), [Rome], [Antonio Maria Guidotto & Duodecimo Viotti], 1556.⁂ 'the last of the three major Italian copy-books of the sixteenth century... Palatino's manual was a more ambitious effort than Arrighi's or Tagliente's... Palatino's models of chancery script are among the handsomest, but are nearly impossible to execute if the writer is a person of modest ability.' (Miner, 2000 Years of Calligraphy, 65).Literature: Bonacini 1338; EDIT 16 CNCE 6666.
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NO RESERVE Bibliography.- Parr (Samuel) Bibliotheca Parriana, engraved portrait frontispiece slightly offset on title, contemporary morocco, gilt, rebacked preserving original spine, worn, 1827 § Burke (Henry Farnham) Examples of Irish Bookplates from the Collections of Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms, one of 100 copies, plates, contemporary cloth, rebacked, 1894; and 32 others, bibliography covering bookplates, bindings, prints etc. v.s. (34)
Lot 314
NO RESERVE Pennant (Thomas) The Literary Life..., first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 plates, one folding and hand-coloured, library half morocco, 1793 § [Keir (James)] Account of the Life and Writings of Thomas Day, library morocco-backed cloth, 1791 § Essays upon several subjects concerning British Antiquities, third edition, library morocco-backed cloth, Edinburgh, 1763; and 37 others, history and biography, many regarding Birmingham-related figures, v.s. (40)
Lot 318
Pettus (Sir John) Fodinæ regales. Or The history, lavvs and places of the chief mines and mineral works in England, Wales, and the English pale in Ireland. As also of the mint and mony. With a clavis explaining some difficult words relating to mines, &c. , 2 parts in 1, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece by W.Sherwin, 2 engraved plates with letterpress key verso, 2 engraved illustrations of arms of the societies of mines and mineral works, errata f. at end, first sig. working loose, occasional spotting, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners worn, rubbed and scratched, [Hoover 634; Duveen p.468; Goldsmiths' 1930; Kress 1270; Wing P1908], folio, printed by H[enry]. L[loyd]. and R[obert]. B[attersby]. for Thomas Basset at the George in Fleetstreet, near Cliffords Inne, 1670.⁂ Mining in the British Isles by the royalist Deputy Governor of mines and fellow of The Royal Society.
Lot 319
Pettus (Sir John) Fleta minor. The lavvs of art and nature, in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, numerous engraved illustrations, woodcut decorative initials, lacking engraved portrait, occasional spotting or staining, engraved bookplate of Arthur Dalrymple, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, [Ferguson I, pp.185-186; Wellcome II, p.527; Wing P1906; cf. Hoover 633], folio. printed, for the author, by Thomas Dawks, his Majesty's British printer, at the West-end of Thames-street, 1683.⁂ The first part is the first edition in English of Lazarus Ercker's 1574 treatise on ores. The second part is a dictionary of metallurgical terms compiled by Pettus.
Lot 320
Metallurgy.- Pettus (Sir John) Fleta Minor. The Laws of Art and Nature, in Knowing, Judging, Assaying, Fining, Refining, and Inlarging the Bodies Confin'd Metals, 2 parts in 1 vol., third issue with cancel general title printed in red and black, lacking engraved portrait and initial & final blanks, with 43 engraved illustrations in text, some full-page, woodcut ornamental initials, a little browned, staining towards end, mostly marginal, old ink stamp of Medical Society of London to title, later half calf, rubbed, rebacked, [Duveen p.468; Hoover 633; Ferguson II p.186; Wellcome IV 349], folio, for and sold by Stephen Bateman, 1686.
Lot 332
NO RESERVE Gold.- Cellini (Benvenuto).- Plon (Eugene) Benvenuto Cellini: Orfèvre, Médailleur Sculpteur, plates, some photogravure on india paper and mounted, original morocco-backed decorated cloth, gilt, g.e., Paris, 1883 § Arneth (Joseph) Die Cinque-Cento-Cameen und Arbeiten des Benvenuto Cellini..., engraved plates, later library half morocco, original green wrappers bound in (rubbed and soiled), Vienna, 1858 § Nugent (Thomas) The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, 2 vol., engraved portrait, spotted, with contemporary ink signature of Samuel Strutt to head of vol.2 title and bookplate in vol.1, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, T.Davies, 1761; and 9 others on Cellini and Italian goldsmiths, v.s. (13)
Lot 343
Mineralogy.- Cornwall.- Pryce (William) Mineralogia Cornubiensis; a Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining..., first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece by Basire after Clifford, list of subscribers, 7 engraved plates and plans, 3 folding, 2 folding letterpress tables, portrait lightly offset on title, otherwise an excellent clean copy, bookplate of Robert Verney, contemporary sprinked calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving most of old spine, [Duveen p.488; Wellcome IV 445], folio, for the Author, by James Phillips..., 1778.
Lot 346
Raponi (Ignazio Maria) Recueil de Pierres antiques gravees concernant l'histoire, la mythologie, la fable, les ceremonies religieuses, les costumes des anciens peuples, et les plus fameux personnages del'antiquite, avec leur description, title printed in red and black with sepia-engraved vignette, engraved initials and sepia-engraved head-piece, 88 engraved plates by Giovanni Brun, some light marginal foxing, lacking portrait, bookplate to endpaper, 19th century half morocco, folio, Rome, Giovanni Zempel for Bouchard & Gravier, 1786.
Lot 357
Rogers (Charles) A Collection of Prints in imitation of drawings, to which are annexed lives of their authors with explanatory and critical notes, 2 vol., engraved additional titles by Bartolozzi after G. B. Cipriani, engraved portrait frontispiece after Joshua Reynolds by Ryland, engraved dedication leaf by Ashby, and 112 artworks in 108 plates (2 folding) on 105 leaves, engravings, soft-ground etchings, mezzotints, stipple-engravings, printed in sepia, black and bistre, engraved and woodcut head-pieces and decorations, duplicate plate loosely inserted, first and last few ff. of each vol. mounted on stubs, occasional offsetting, loosely inserted note in a contemporary hand stating "Subscriber's copy, this one the 13th - proofs on india paper", 20th century half calf, surface soiling to covers, folio, Printed by J. Nichols and sold by John Boydell, Benjamin White, and Peter Molini, 1778.⁂ First edition of this fine, elaborate production with works after Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, Corregio and others. . Rogers commissioned the leading engravers of his day to reproduce drawings in his own collection, as well as that of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Earl Spencer, Robert Adam and John Barnard, among others.
Lot 366
Economics.- Scaruffi (Gasparo) L'alitinonfo... per fare ragione, et concordanza d'oro, e d'argento; che servirà in universale, collation: *6 A-B6 C2 D-L6, engraved pictorial title by Regius Lombardus, 2 double-page letterpress tables, further tables within text, all within woodcut typographic borders, 4 woodcuts of coins, woodcut historiated initials and head- and tail-pieces, *6 and L6 blank, title closely trimmed, occasional staining, mostly marginal, Reggio Emilia, Hercoliano Bartoli, 1582 bound with [Bisi (Propsero)] Breve instruttione sopra il discorso fatto dal Mag. M. Gasparo Scaruffi, collation: A6 B4, title with small woodcut portrait within typographic border, woodcut historiated initials, water-stained at head, Reggio Emilia, Hercoliano Bartoli, 1582, together 2 works in 1 vol., late 18th century vellum-backed patterned boards, head of spine repaired, rubbed, lightly soiled, folio (288 x 202mm.)⁂ First and only edition of this landmark treatise on money, coinage and currency exchange, with perhaps the earliest call for a single universal currency. Literature: I. Einaudi 5147; Goldsmiths' I, 222; Kress 151; Smith, Rara aritmetica, pp. 370-372; EDIT 16 CNCE 30803 II. EDIT 16 CNCE 6163,
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NO RESERVE Waterworks.- Fireworks.- Bate (John) The mysteries of nature and art. In foure severall parts. The first of water works. The second of fire works. The third of drawing, washing, limming, painting, and engraving. The fourth of sundry experiments, second edition, title in red and black and with engraved divisional pictorial border, 1 woodcut plate (?of 2), woodcut illustrations, some full-page, lacking engraved portrait, ?a plate, X2&3 and 2Q3&4, sigs. T and 2D misbound, title torn and laid down with loss to upper and lower corners, lower margin of A4 cut away, 2E2 repaired, affecting a few words, marginal repairs (affecting the odd letter in places), closely trimmed at head, affecting some headlines, some staining or spotting, 20th century half morocco, spine darkened, [STC 1578; Philip B.050.2; cf. Duveen p.51], small 4to, [Printed by [Thomas Harper] for Ralph Mabb], [1635]. sold not subject to return.
Lot 386
NO RESERVE Calligraphy.- Shelley (George) Natural Writing in all the hands, with variety of ornaments, engraved portrait & title by George Bickham, engraved dedication and 27 plates, one letterpress leaf, [1709]; The Second Part of Natural Writing..., engraved portrait & title by Bickham, 2 engraved dedications, 7pp. letterpress printed in double-column, final leaf with engraved illustration of quills, 29 engraved plates, one folding at foot, a few shaved at lower edge, text also slightly cropped, [1714], together 2 vol. in 1, the second part with some foxing, the first very clean, later half morocco, [Berlin Kat. 5052], oblong folio, Thomas & John Bowles
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